5. Short Film Analysis: Lovefield.

We are firstly introduced to this short film through an establishing shot of a field which connotes that this will explore a deep range of emotions. After the titles appear on the screen, the camera pans down towards the field. As the wind blows the crops we feel a sense of comfort as it peacefully sways against the wind. However, the music contrasts this scene as it typically represents a thriller/horror convention: unsettling music. Moreover, when the noise of sign interrupts this, it adds to the tense atmosphere. Additionally, when the crow is introduced on the screen we immediately think that danger is apparent in the film as it typically signifies death.

After this a sound of a phone is introduced as if someone was trying to call someone. The camera pans down, fading into different shots of the crops. We then see the phone, money spread across the floor from a bag and a cloth covered in blood. A sound of a women is then heard as they scream in agony. This unpleasant sound is left over no music, making the viewing even more tense. Furthermore, this adds to the typical thriller/horror convention.

We then see a foot, and see the person struggling under the pain. We assume they have been attacked- their foot is covered a dirt- thus signifying that they have been in a fight. However, as the music crescendos with their pain- they stop still and stay quiet- assuming they have died. Soon after this, a hand is forced down to push a knife in the ground. This sudden jump soon makes the audience realise they have been attacked- and with a knife. The music stops, and it intercuts to the crow- again adding to the suggestion of death. Soon after this however, the character that has committed the crime is slowly revealed when the camera tilts up. His hands are covered in blood and his has a skull tattoo- all adding to our judgement that he has killed this person.

He turns to the crow- blocking our view of his face: all the more adding to his guilty presence. A mid shot is then used to show the man looking around in the field. The long crops suggests that he is hiding, symbolically from the murder he has just committed. He turns around, looking to see if anyone is there. However, he looks back at the ground, looking at his kill, then runs backwards in a hurry. He runs to a black car- (signifying death) and fiddles with the keys to open the boot. We now assume he trying to get rid of the body and is under pressure. He opens the boot and we are introduced to his face, when he then tries to look for something.

When he finally chooses a pink blanket we assume he is trying to cover the body up. With the intercutting of the crow, it symbolically represents his guilty conscience that he has committed murder. However, as he runs over to the person it reveals (after anticipated time) that in fact it was a women giving birth to a baby. The image we had of this man was negative. We thought he was a murderer, but in actual fact he was merely trying to help a women in need. They both laugh, until a pan reveals the scene: he was a farmer when a women stopped because she was giving birth- the car is hers and phone call was to the police.